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View SchemaA Quantum Rosetta Stone for Interferometry
| Authors | Hwang Lee, Pieter Kok, Jonathan P. Dowling |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0202133 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0202133 |
| DOI | 10.1080/0950034021000011536 |
| Journal | J. Mod. Opt. 49, 2325 (2002) |
Abstract
Heisenberg-limited measurement protocols can be used to gain an increase in measurement precision over classical protocols. Such measurements can be implemented using, e.g., optical Mach-Zehnder interferometers and Ramsey spectroscopes. We address the formal equivalence between the Mach-Zehnder interferometer, the Ramsey spectroscope, and the discrete Fourier transform. Based on this equivalence we introduce the ``quantum Rosetta stone'', and we describe a projective-measurement scheme for generating the desired correlations between the interferometric input states in order to achieve Heisenberg-limited sensitivity. The Rosetta stone then tells us the same method should work in atom spectroscopy.
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